2 more bodies found at Tijuana home where Garden Grove couple was buried

TIJUANA, Mexico — Mexican authorities say they have discovered two more bodies at a house in Tijuana where a couple with dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship were found buried, allegedly by their son-in-law.

The attorney general’s office for the state of Baja California, just south of San Diego, California, said late Saturday the second set of bodies – one male and the other female – are in a state of advanced decomposition. All four bodies were covered in lime.

Authorities suspect the man killed his in-laws in a dispute over money. They say he confessed to burying them on one of their properties, where he lived.

The suspect, identified only as Santiago N, was deported from the U.S. in 2012 and had been living at a home in Tijuana owned by his in-laws.

Maria Teresa López  Guillén, 65, and her husband Jesús Rubén López Guillén, 70, entered Mexico on Jan. 10 to retrieve the equivalent of $6,400 in rent for apartments they owned in the city, and that their son-in-law had supposedly collected on their behalf.

A daughter in Orange County, Norma Lopez, reported the couple missing the next day.

Garden Grove police opened a missing person case after the Guilléns were reported missing. Garden Grove police Lt. Carl Whitney said their daughter had been tracking her parents though the Find My iPhone app, which last showed the couple at their property in the Colonia Obrero neighborhood south of downtown Tijuana, about four miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.

Then the phone went dead, and she could not track them anymore, Whitney said.

The Register contributed to this story.